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covered-call-or-short-put_2 Covered Call or Short Put

Instructor In the last two weeks articles (here and here ), I wrote about the equivalence between two popular option positions – the short

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covered-call-options-trading-strategy_1 Covered Call Options Trading Strategy

Covered Call Writing Using TradingTrainer.com’s BlackBox Software How does a covered call work? If you are long the stock (i.e. you are the owner

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high-dividend-yields-and-covered-call-options_2 Boosting Yield With Dividend Paying Stocks And Covered Calls

Trading high dividend yield stocks can be lucrative. Some traders like to chase dividends by finding stocks with high yields and buying the stocks

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why-takeover-news-zaps-acquirer-s-stock_2 Why Takeover News Zaps Acquirer s Stock

Janet Whitman Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal Updated July 21, 2002 12:01 a.m. ET Pfizer’s stock price got clobbered last week when

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making-sense-of-stock-market-quotes_2 Why Chinese Arbitrage Trades Are Unreliable

We all know about the trail of fraud initiated by numerous China -based companies that listed on U.S. exchanges via the speculative reverse merger

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trade-takeover-stocks-with-merger-arbitrage_2 Trade Takeover Stocks With Merger Arbitrage

Merger arbitrage is the business of trading stocks in companies that are subject to takeovers or mergers. Arbitrage exploits the fact that takeovers normally

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the-janus-fund-seeks-to-balance-risk-and-rewar_2 The Merger Fund Replaces the Arbitrage Fund in the Kiplinger 25Kiplinger

Arbitrage Fund has closed to new investors, but Merger Fund is a worthy replacement. We decided to add Arbitrage Fund (symbol ARBFX ) to

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takeover-tactics-investment_1 Takeover tactics Investment

Page Tools Playing the game is tricky enough for the experts, let alone small investors, writes John Collett. Small shareholders in takeover targets risk

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risk-arbitrage-stock-trading_1 Risk arbitrage stock trading

risk arbitrage stock trading Risk arbitrage, or merger arbitrage, is an investment or trading strategy often associated with hedge funds. Two principal types of

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proshares-lists-merger-arbitrage-etf_1 ProShares Lists Merger Arbitrage ETF

ProShares, the largest provider of leveraged and inverse ETFs. today is listing on the BATS exchange a merger-arbitrage ETF that would go head-to-head with

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